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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel   Listen
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

noun
1.
German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846).  Synonym: Bessel.





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... Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was born at Minden, in Westphalia, July 22, 1784. A certain taste for figures, coupled with a still stronger distaste for the Latin accidence, directed his inclination and his father's choice towards a mercantile career. In ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke


Words linked to "Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel" :   Bessel, uranologist, stargazer, astronomer, mathematician


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